Forum Activity for @claygordon

New Ning To Jamroom Support Forum

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@denisdnt -

I am on a Mac and I have the latest version of Filezilla installed (3.10.0.2)

Once FileZilla is launched, go to the FILE menu and select Site Manager.
Create a "New Site"
Enter the information you got from your hosting service provider.

Host is the name of the ftp server.
You probably do not have to enter the port number unless it's not the default FTP port.
Select the protocol. Probably FTP but could be SFTP if you asked for that in your account setup.
Ask to use Encryption if it's available.
- (It is at Arvixe, but because I am on a shared server when I log in I get a warning about it which I dismiss.)
Select the logon type. If you select Normal the password you enter will be used. If you select Ask you will be asked for it each time.
- Anonymous is probably not an option.
Enter your username
Enter your password
Click on Okay.

You will now have saved a site configuration and it will appear in the panel at the left (in this case, Test).
When you want to log in to your FTP server, click on the name of the account to connect to and click on Connect.

If all of the information you provide is correct then you will see the back and forth between Filezilla and the server in the top left panel and the server directory listing will appear. If there's something wrong, the dialog in the top panel will let you know what it is.

updated by @claygordon: 01/23/15 07:50:58AM

Latest Ning Import module released.

Ning To Jamroom

@Michael and @Paul (who I know is taking a long weekend but is still checking emails):

Is the category structure in the Ning "Forums" that is preserved when imported into the Site Forum (nothing in the import box) preserved when imported as a group (something entered into the import box)?

This is one of the key questions in the above thread that has not been answered, yet.

Latest Ning Import module released.

Ning To Jamroom

Yes, searching within a subset of results is also very cool and, as I mentioned, adding search fields. This is something I am going to explore a lot and write an extensive FAQ for my members.

Latest Ning Import module released.

Ning To Jamroom

Perrie -

It turns out that Site Search (in the top nav) searches within Group discussions and other areas of the site and it is really, really powerful because it organizes the results by the type of item found. It's not the category structure, but it is SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than the Ning search and at the same time, supports serendipitous discovery.

I searched for FAQ and it found it in Forum Topics and Tagged Items (i have a tag w/ FAQ in it).

It is WAY WAY WAY cool.

Just click here for an example:
http://www.thechocolatelife.com/search/results/all/1/4?search_string=Pod

--- edited to add ---

The search feature alone is worth so much. I am going to be writing a special FAQ to let my members know about it. I can see using it for many, many, things, especially because I can add my own database fields to search.
updated by @claygordon: 01/22/15 04:51:21PM

comment back (tip)

Ning To Jamroom

It messes up on my system.

I think you have my login credentials if you want to test it there for yourself. Attached is a screenshot.

updated by @claygordon: 01/22/15 04:38:50PM

Changing a value that occurs hundreds of times in a datastore ??

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It helps a lot if I can ignore them.

So I will and I am closing this one out.

Member mismatch - There but missing, sometimes

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If I go here:

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/profile and search for "vasil" I get zero results.

That is not a complete list of members, just those who have posted something -- it's not "All" members, which is the text on the link in the Profiles box on the home page.

Editing member comments

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I use Firefox a lot but it doesn't display GMail very well, IMO. As I spend so much time in mail, I want the UI to look a specific way, and Chrome and Safari do it for me.

Now that I know the tip I say that creating a UI to edit comments is not high on my list.

Changing a value that occurs hundreds of times in a datastore ??

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When I create my account when I installed JR the first time, I did not understand the interaction between accounts and profiles.

I imported comments and then changed both my Account Name and Profile Name.

In looking at the comment datastore during the discussion on editing comments I noticed that there are hundreds (if not more) comment records that still have my old Account Name, in three fields that I can see:

comment_item_title: ChocLifeRoot
comment_item_url: chocliferoot
comment_profile_url: chocliferoot

Does this matter?

If it does, I need to change them. The only way I can think that this can be done is using mySQL unless there is a tool in the mySQL admin tool that allows global search and replace within a field.

updated by @claygordon: 03/19/15 09:34:57AM

Latest Ning Import module released.

Ning To Jamroom

Perrie -

When you do the Forum import (what Ning called Forums) and DO NOT specify a name, all of the Forum entries - are imported under the name of the owner - user_id:1 - probably you. This preserves any category structure you added to your Ning forums.

If you specify a name, ALL of the Forum entries will be put into a Group with that name and you will lose the category associations. Perhaps most importantly, right now, there is no Search function within Group discussions - and that seals it for me as of this writing.

I don't know what it would take to add Search at the top level across all groups, and within groups. That's a question for Team JR.
updated by @claygordon: 01/22/15 04:14:26PM